The following is from the Nov. 16th edition of Liberty & Security Journal. Download the digital version Nov. 10: Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, has appointed a new chief of operations for the terrorist group’s war against the West. The man is known among the intelligence community by the pseudonym Saif al-Adel, [...]
Domestic Security Threats
Would-be D.C. Metro bomber pleads not guilty
The following is from the Nov. 16th edition of Liberty & Security Journal. Download the digital version Nov. 9: A Virginia man arrested last month for allegedly plotting to bomb Washington, D.C. Metrorail train stations has pleaded not guilty. The Pakistani-born Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn, Va. allegedly attempted to assist individuals whom he believed [...]
Drug task force busts Mexican drug cartel in Atlanta
The following is from the Nov. 16th edition of Liberty & Security Journal. Download the digital version Nov. 8: The Drug Enforcement Agency announced the arrests of 45 suspected Mexican drug cartel members operating in Atlanta on Monday. Last May, an Atlanta High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area task force began an investigation targeting La Familia [...]
Leader of drug cartel killed in shootout with Mexican Marines
The following is from the Nov. 16th edition of Liberty & Security Journal. Download the digital version Nov. 8: Mexican marines killed one of the leaders of the Gulf Cartel in a firefight on Friday. Antonio Ezequiel “Tony Tormenta” Cardenas Guillen was killed along with four of his bodyguards in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state. Mexican forces [...]
Federal judge blocks Oklahoma’s anti-Sharia amendment
The following is from the Nov. 16th edition of Liberty & Security Journal. Download the digital version Nov. 8: A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against Oklahoma’s constitutional amendment prohibiting state courts from using Islamic Sharia Law or international law when deciding cases. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange (a Bill [...]
Al Qaeda claims responsibility for downing of UPS flight, parcel plot
The following is from the Nov. 16th edition of Liberty & Security Journal. Download the digital version Nov. 6: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has claimed credit for the fatal crash of a UPS flight in September as well as the recent “package bomb” plot. On Sept. 3, a UPS 747-400 cargo plane [...]
Six Americans murdered in Mexican town in six days
The following is from the Nov. 5, 2010 edition of Liberty & Security Journal. Nov. 3: Two more U.S. Citizens have been slain in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez, bringing this week’s death toll to six. Eder Diaz, 23, and Manuel Acosta, 25, both students at the University of Texas at El Paso [...]
FBI links fifth shooting to series of attacks on military buildings
The following is from the Nov. 5, 2010 edition of Liberty & Security Journal. View the digital version. Nov. 3: The FBI has linked the latest shooting at a Coast Guard recruiting site in a suburban Washington, D.C. strip mall to four similar shootings in October. Ballistics tests link previous shootings at the Pentagon, the [...]
Three California men charged with supporting terrorism
The following is from the Nov. 5, 2010 edition of Liberty & Security Journal. Nov. 2: Three San Diego residents were charged with conspiring to support a foreign terrorist organization and conspiring to kill in a foreign country, among other charges. According to an indictment, Basaaly Saeed Moalin was in contact with an al Shabaab [...]
U.S. fatalities in Mexico exceed those in Iraq
With the murders of four Americans this weekend in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez, the number of U.S. citizens murdered this year in Mexico has surpassed the number of U.S. fatalities in Iraq. 57 military members have died in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2010 – only 20 due to hostile actions. At least [...]
